WSU Today: June 3, 2019

  • Retirement celebration set for Wanda Holt
  • University Police hire new parking and transportation manager
  • Register for June 19 Service Standards training
  • SPTE Request forms coming soon
  • Changes made to ITS Desktop Ticketing System (Team Dynamix) web portal are live
  • Celebrate WSU at Shockerfest
  • Sign up for Administrative Processes and Procedures informational event

Shocker Blast: June 3, 2019

  • Celebrate WSU at this week's Shockerfest
  • Shocker Dining has new summer hours
  • Heskett Center has new summer hours
  • New Saturday hours for the RSC's Shocker Store
  • Training for preventing suicide to be offered
  • WSU Summer Choir rehearsals start today
  • WSU lab takes virtual reality to a whole new level
  • Engineering students place top 10 in NASA rocket launch competition
  • Keep calm and breathe on
  • Submit your fall events for the Welcomefest listing
  • Free HIV testing available June 4
  • WSU Reads announcement for 2019-20
  • Join a WSU Heart Walk team
  • Shocker community invited to Royals baseball game trip on June 22
  • Volunteers needed for a research study
  • Seeking volunteer Jump!Star performers this summer
  • New patriotic Shocker shirt for sale at Shocker Store

WSU Today: May 31, 2019

  • Coleen Pugh named new dean of WSU Graduate School
  • Students help Kansas African American Museum improve library efficiency
  • Creative designer, First-Year Seminar positions open
  • McCurdy Auction:  WSU students are the best investment
  • Pizza Hut Museum undergoing operational changes
  • Volunteers needed for a research study
  • Sign up for Administrative Processes and Procedures informational event
  • Student wins best paper award at national conference

Emilee Palomino

WSU graduate empowers girls through clothing brand

May 31, 2019 -- 2010 WSU graduate, entrepreneur, and mother, Emilee Palomino is empowering girls all over the world through her brand, Smarty Girl.

Coleen Pugh

Coleen Pugh named new dean of WSU Graduate School

May 31, 2019 -- Coleen Pugh, a professor of Polymer Science at the University of Akron (Ohio), has been named the new dean of the Wichita State University Graduate School and associate vice president for Research and Technology Transfer, effective July 28.

WSU Today: May 30, 2019

  • Baseball season tickets are now available
  • Shockin' Fun Friday canceled
  • Apply now for Volunteer Service to America (VISTA)
  • RSVP for 'Designing and Validating Prototypes' presentation
  • Purchasing office will close for three hours today
  • Shocker Dining has new summer hours
  • Weekly briefings on hiatus until August
  • Registration open for Win the Day walking sessions

Emmalie Gulledge, student worker at WSU Ventures

Engineering major ventures into patent law

May 29, 2019 - Biomedical engineering junior Emmalie Gulledge has bridged her degree to her patent law aspirations through her work at WSU Ventures this year. While her major wouldn’t ordinarily prepare her for law school, her applied learning experiences in intellectual property and technology transfer have brought her dream a lot closer to reality.

Brittany Allen, senior, at the Hyper Pet office.

WSU grad gets hands-on experience through graphic design internship

May 29, 2019 - As a senior graphic design major, Brittany Allen got a taste of the business world as a marketing intern at industry-leading pet products manufacturer Hyper Pet.

WSU Today: May 29, 2019

  • All welcome at campus forums to share feedback on presidential search
  • New Academic Affairs Fellows announced
  • Read the latest edition of Academe
  • Grow, Learn, Connect event coming June 12
  • New web training and design features available
  • Faculty sabbaticals approved for 2019-20 academic year
  • Service-learning project helps students learn how language affects resources
  • New resource available for DACA students
  • Seeking volunteer Jump!Star performers this summer

Campus Connection: May 28, 2019

  • Students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and community invited to share feedback on presidential search
  • WSU lab takes virtual reality to a whole new level
  • Engineering students place in top 10 in NASA rocket launch competition
  • Save the date for the Kansas Economic Outlook Conference
  • WSU Summer Choir rehearsals start June 3
  • Share your vision of the future with architects from around the state
  • ICYMI: The May 23 Weekly Briefing
  • A SculpTour Affair – The biennial benefit event for the Ulrich Museum of Art
  • New hours for Shocker Store in the RSC
  • Join a WSU Heart Walk team
  • Patriotic Shocker shirts on sale at Shocker Store

WSU Today: May 28, 2019

  • Students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and community invited to share feedback on presidential search
  • Changes coming to the ITS Desktop Ticketing System (Team Dynamix) web portal
  • Opportunity to develop new First-Year Seminars on May 29 and June 13
  • Register for the Engaging a Multigenerational Workforce Training coming June 13
  • Purchasing office will close for three hours on Thursday, May 30
  • Haley’s expertise cited in Fortune
  • Plan to attend the All-Campus Faculty / Staff Party - Shockin’ Fun Friday
  • Share your vision of the future with architects from around the state
  • New hours for Shocker Store in the RSC
  • WSU men's and women's tennis offers free tennis clinics on Wednesdays
  • Fall tuition assistance is open
  • Personal Trainer summer course to be offered
  • College of Applied Studies to host Shocker STEM Camp
  • Join a WSU Heart Walk team

View of Miro at the Ulrich Museum of Art

Faculty and staff news, summer 2019

May 23, 2019 -- Academe is a compilation of Wichita State University faculty and staff news, published quarterly.

Students in Kansas African American Museum library

Students help Kansas African American Museum improve library efficiency

May 24, 2019 -- Wichita State University Work Systems students helped the Kansas African American Museum change to a database that is more streamlined and adaptable than its previous system.

Abigail Sheahan at Our Daily Bread

Service-learning project helps students learn how language affects resources

May 24, 2019 - Wichita State University students Sarah Myose and Abigail Sheahan worked at organizations that help people overcome language barriers as part of their service-learning project. Both said the experiences improved their leadership skills and opened potential career paths.

WSU Today: May 24, 2019

  • University will be closed on Memorial Day
  • Engineering students place in top 10 in NASA rocket launch competition
  • In case you missed it
  • Register for the Engaging a Multigenerational Workforce Training coming June 13
  • A SculpTour Affair – The biennial benefit event for the Ulrich Museum of Art
  • New Saturday hours for the RSC's Shocker Store
  • Meet a Shocker: Alexi Abi-Mikhael, psychology grad
  • Shocker Store mobile unit will be at State Track Meet
  • Outdoor Adventures announces Royals baseball game trip on June 22

WSU Today: May 23, 2019

  • State employee pay raises: What’s happening, and how it affects you
  • WSU lab takes virtual reality to a whole new level
  • KBOR approves Paid Parental Leave benefit
  • Faculty sabbaticals approved for 2019-20 academic year
  • Training for preventing suicide to be offered
  • IDEA will not be available next year for course evaluations
  • Share your vision of the future with architects from around the state
  • Annualized salary spread for academic year 2019-20
  • WSU Summer Choir rehearsals start June 3
  • Submit your fall events for the Welcomefest listing
  • Meet a Shocker: Meghan Carver, communication grad
  • Meet a Shocker: Karen Abshire-Gordon, psychology grad
  • Thousands of fans expected to attend state high school track meet at Cessna Stadium
  • Outdoor Adventures Worlds of Fun trip

WSU Today: May 22, 2019

  • New training and design features for the web
  • Opportunity to develop new First-Year Seminars on May 29 and June 13
  • Stressed? Keep Calm and Breathe On
  • Registration for Campus Safety: Active Threat Incident Planning is available
  • WSU Weekly Briefing to feature service learning at Wichita State
  • WSU Summer Choir rehearsals start June 3
  • Register for the 2nd Annual Academic Resources Conference
  • College of Applied Studies to host Shocker STEM Camp
  • Parking lot update
  • Meet a Shocker: Colton Russell, engineering grad
  • Top 10 reasons to become a summer Shocker
  • Women's Tennis earns ITA Community Service Award
  • Patriotic Shocker shirt
  • Eck Stadium to be site of Class 5A high school baseball championship

Campus Connection: May 21, 2019

  • Virgin Galactic lead test pilot to give talk at WSU today (Tuesday, May 21)
  • KBOR appoints members to Wichita State University Presidential Search Committee
  • Tuition increase request is Wichita State’s lowest in 30 years
  • Keeping Kansas dollars in Kansas
  • LaunchPrep Demo Day to feature six businesses
  • WSU's FirePoint Innovations Center supporting U.S. Army modernization priorities
  • Meet a Shocker: Chris Rempe supports industry in 3D
  • In case you missed it
  • WSU Summer Choir rehearsals start June 3
  • Personal Trainer summer course to be offered
  • Summer dining hours
  • College of Applied Studies to host Shocker STEM Camp
  • Seeking volunteer Jump!Star performers this summer
  • An anniversary Grady Landrum chooses not to celebrate
  • Eck Stadium to be site of Class 5A high school baseball championship
  • Thousands of fans expected to attend state high school track meet at Cessna Stadium
  • Outdoor Adventures announces Royals baseball game trip on June 22
  • WSU summer tennis camps coming soon!
  • Join us this summer at the Heskett Center
  • New Saturday hours for the RSC's Shocker Store
  • Sales on summer styles in Shocker Store
  • RSC Memorial Day weekend hours
  • Patriotic Shocker shirt

Wichita State SLI team interviews with NASA correspondents after their rocket launch. Photo credit: Scott Miller

Engineering students place top 10 in NASA rocket launch competition

May 21, 2019 - Four Wichita State University aerospace engineering students have placed seventh in NASA’s Student Launch Initiative competition. The team designed, built and launched a rocket to complete a simulated Moon mission.

WSU Today: May 21, 2019

  • Grow, Learn, Connect event coming June 12
  • Kouri Parcourse dedication today (Tuesday, May 21)
  • LaunchPrep Demo Day to feature six businesses
  • Virgin Galactic lead test pilot to give talk at WSU today (Tuesday, May 21)
  • WSU men's and women's tennis offers free tennis clinics on Wednesdays
  • Photovoice exhibit tomorrow (Wednesday, May 22)
  • Plan to attend the All-Campus Faculty / Staff Party - Shockin’ Fun Friday
  • Register for the Engaging a Multigenerational Workforce Training coming June 13
  • Summer dining hours
  • Training for preventing suicide to be offered on June 21
  • Meet a Shocker: Rachel Ziska, criminal justice grad
  • Outdoor Adventures announces Royals baseball game trip on June 22
  • WSU summer tennis camps coming soon!
  • RSC Memorial Day weekend hours